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Hypatia

Start date: Aug 1, 2015, End date: Jul 31, 2018,

Hypatia will bring about lasting change in the way schools, science museums, research institutions and industry engage teenage girls in STEM across Europe. Bringing these stakeholders together with gender experts and teenagers themselves, Hypatia will develop, pilot and disseminate a unique modular toolkit of activities and guidelines for engaging teenagers in STEM in a gender-inclusive way. These ...
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Miss to Hit: From misconceptions to learning insights through inquiry with playful physical objects

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

Several reports and studies warned us about the decline in scientific vocations in the last decade. Science education is not able to change the negative attitudes and lack of interest of students. The situation is alarming from a gender perspective, considering women have gone from a presence of 35% in the technology sector in 1980 to a meager 15% today. At the same time, a more detailed analyses ...
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STEM Teacher Training Innovation for Gender balance

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

Despite nearly 30 years of efforts to engage girls in physical sciences and engineering, the gender gap continues in the scientific vocations. On the other hand, meanwhile the demand of graduates in those fields continues to grow, the scientific vocation among the young students is increasingly low. Answering to that need, the main objective of this project is to raise and share good science educ ...
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TINKERING: Contemporary Education for the Innovators of Tomorrow

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

The project “Tinkering: Contemporary Education for the Innovators of tomorrow” emerges from the need for citizens able to respond to the contemporary global challenges by being competent in science and technology, self-confident and critical thinkers, socially-engaged, with innovative and entrepreneurial attitude. The project responds to these needs through a learner-centred approach aiming at edu ...
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brEaking New Ground IN the sciencE Education Realm (ENGINEER)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

ENGINEER will support the widespread adoption in Europe of innovative methods of science teaching and provide extensive teacher training on inquiry-based methods. It will be based on the proven “Engineering is Elementary” (EiE) program developed by Boston’s Museum of Science (BMOS) since 2003-04 and now widely used in primary schools throughout the U.S. Evaluations of EiE have found that incorpora ...
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Towards Women In Science and Technology (TWIST)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

The gender dimension of research implicates that the share of women in research is extremely low in all European countries and associated countries. Throughout Europe there is a fear that interest in science and technology is declining, at the same time as demands for science and technology graduates grows. The TWIST project will address this challenge with an ambitious programme of coordinated ac ...
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Facilitating Engagement of Adults in Science and Technology

Start date: Dec 1, 2011,

Contemporary Europe is seeking to create a knowledge based economy in which all citizens can contribute to the economical growth and the decision making process for science and technology related issues. Within this perspective and in the frame of an increasingly aging population, adults are a key element, both as active stakeholders of society and as educators of future European citizens.The FEAS ...
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